This report, submitted as an appeal for continuation of funds, summarizes the achievements of the Miami Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime (TASC) project. The project is designed to identify drug-abusing arrestees and divert them to either jail treatment or one of the Miami community's drug treatment programs. Included in this report are cost…

In May 1974, Fresno County's Narcotic Abuse Treatment Program began a 21-day outpatient methadone detoxification treatment modality. The purpose of this paper is to examine this alternative treatment modality, its characteristics, its therapeutic outcomes and the rationale for its use. (Author)

The article describes how a 60-hour training program helped 32 blind persons use biofeedback techniques to improve blood flow to arms, hands, legs, and feet (especially important for diabetics), and to reduce anxiety through relaxation. (Author)

The rising costs and diminishing returns of Her Majesty's prisons prompted the British government to set up a committee on "Non-custodial and Semi-custodial Treatment of Offenders." One of its central recommendations was the introduction of community service as a constructive alternative to imprisonment. (Author)

The automatic interaction detector was applied as an evaluation tool to data normally collected by vocational-rehabilitation agencies. Demographic, service, and local agency variables were analyzed with mean weekly income at time of closure as the dependent variable. Recommendations for further research were made. (Author)

The article describes how a rehabilitation center for the blind, aware that many clients were inept in dealing with society at large, instituted an assertive skills training program to improve client skills in this area. (Author/SBH)

Describes the Positive Approaches for Sex Offenders (PASO) program which attempts to provide a treatment alternative to incarceration for sex offenders. (Author)

This paper presents an overview of the Counseling/Health Psychology Program at the West Haven Veterans Administration Medical Center (WHVAMC). The organizational structure of the counseling program and its clinical services are briefly described, including consultation, and inpatient and outpatient programs. Historical roots in human…

The rehabilitation process at the California Institution for Women at Frontera is discussed, especially in relation to the Chicana inmate. (NQ)

INITIATED AS AN EXPERIMENTAL EFFORT TO HELP REDUCE THE HIGH RATE OF RECIDIVISM TO ALABAMA'S PRISONS, THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING PROJECT HAS GRADUATED 173 YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS AS ENTRY-LEVEL TRADESMEN. JOBS WERE SECURED FOR 142 GRADUATES AS THEY BECAME ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE, SIX GRADUATES WERE RELEASED TO FACE OTHER CHARGES, AND 25 AWAIT…

YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS SERVING PRISON SENTENCES WERE EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS IN A MANPOWER TRAINING PROGRAM INVOLVING COURSES IN WELDING, APPLIANCE REPAIR, RADIO AND TELEVISION REPAIR, AUTO REPAIR, BARBERING, TECHNICAL WRITING, AND BRICKLAYING. THESE COURSES LASTED 26 OR 52 WEEKS, AND EACH HAD AN ENROLLMENT OF 10 STUDENTS. STUDENT EVALUATION AND…

YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS SERVING PRISON SENTENCES WERE EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS IN A MANPOWER TRAINING PROGRAM INVOLVING COURSES IN WELDING, APPLIANCE REPAIR, RADIO AND TELEVISION REPAIR, AUTO REPAIR, BARBERING, TECHNICAL WRITING, AND BRICKLAYING. COUNSELING AND TRAINING CONTINUED FOR ENROLLEES IN THESE SEVEN COURSES, AND 130 INMATES APPLIED FOR THE SECOND…

The document describes the services offered by the Chicago Goodwill Rehabilitation Center. A brief, general description of the goals and activities is provided for each of the following services: personal and vocational evaluation of clients, community and job placement, vocational orientation and exploration, counseling and psychotherapy, social…

A conference on rehabilitating the culturally disadvantaged was held at Mankato College in 1967. The purposes were to provide the trainees (1) the essential information relative to the characteristics and problems of, as well as the methods for, rehabilitating the culturally deprived; (2) an opportunity to cooperatively develop criteria for…